Dead voters' names found among Vivek Ramaswamy's R.I. nomination papers: report
Rhode Island election officials found dead people's names on nomination papers submitted by conservative presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy, the Boston Globe reported Thursday.
According to the Warwick Board of Canvassers, “several deceased voters” were found on Ramaswamy's nomination papers, the Globe reports. It also said it invalidated an "unusually high number" of signatures on his nomination papers.
“The Board of Elections asked for local boards of canvassers to be extra vigilant and to notify them if they see patterns of fraudulent signatures,” state Board of Elections spokesperson Ben Smith told the paper.
“They were asking to take a closer look at all nomination papers, and in this case the nomination papers for Ramaswamy.”
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A spokesperson for the Ramaswamy campaign told the Boston Globe an outside vendor collected nomination signatures.
An internal investigation found the names had been added intentionally by one of the vendor's employees who has since been fired, the spokesperson reportedly said.
As The Globe points out, the deadline for candidates to submit nomination papers to the local boards of canvassers is 4 p.m. Thursday.
Read the full report over at The Boston Globe.